On July 10–15, 2022, join the staff of Tel Shimron Excavations for a summer archaeological dig where you will not only be on the front lines of a hands-on project in the land of the Bible, but you will also have access to top experts and researchers while you gain a deeper understanding of the...Read More

So close, and yet so far away. That is how Moses might have felt after God showed him the Promised Land his descendants would inherit, and then discovered he would never enter it himself (Deuteronomy 34:1–4). That mountain where Moses could see the Promised Land but was not permitted to cross over into it over...Read More

Celebrated annually throughout Jewish communities around the world, Purim is one of the most joyous holidays in the Jewish calendar. Meaning “lots,”—as in to draw lots or straws—in ancient Persian, Purim commemorates the Jewish liberation from Haman, who was prime minister to King Ahasuerus, ruler of the Persian Empire. This is the story in the...Read More

The ancient Ruins of Ephesus may have been removed from the 7 Wonders of the World list back in the mid ’70s, but that doesn’t make this famous historical and architectural site, located in what is now present-day Western Turkey, any less wonderful. Legend has it that the city of Ephesus was founded in the 11th...Read More